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Complex Variables over REST (java noob)

kyleshort — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 18:29:18 GMT

Searching the forums, it's clear that this topic isn't new. However, much of the commentary here assumes a Java audience. Perhaps it's foolish, but I am looking at using Activiti as a back end with an AngularJS front end on top of the REST API. I have almost 0 knowledge of Java.So far things are hum

Re: Complex Variables over REST (java noob)

jbarrez — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 12:51:52 GMT

I'm afraid not. The custom serialization is all java, see http://stacktrace.be/blog/2013/09/custom-variable-representations-in-activiti-rest/ for an example how to do so.

> I'd love to see the platform get to a state where you can truly be effective leveraging the REST api and not the Java api at all.

I agree, it would certainly be nice to get to that point. But for that to work, we need to have data and data mappings in the core engine first. That will take a while still to get there.

Re: Complex Variables over REST (java noob)

aalaa — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 08:16:48 GMT

can u give an example on how you post a variable of type serializable in the request body ?

Re: Complex Variables over REST (java noob)

jbarrez — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 09:32:44 GMT

Please don't post two times the same post….